“Seymour: [singing] Poor/All my life I've always been poor/I keep asking God what I'm for/And he tells me, ‘Gee, I'm not sure’/’Sweep that floor, kid!’/Oh, I started life as an orphan/A child of the street/Here on skid row/He took me in/Gave me shelter, a bed/Crust of bread and a job/Treats me like d…”— Howard Ashman, Seymour Krelborn, Rick Moranis, imdb.com
“Philip: [meeting the boys for the first time] Welcome, Gentlemen! Willis: [confused, looking behind them] You talking to US? Philip: Of course. Arnold: How 'bout that, Willis? Downtown two minutes and already we're gentlemen.”— Ben Starr, Willis Jackson, Todd Bridges, imdb.com
“See, downtown, at my internship, or at Yale, I’m the lucky orphan child whose fate depends on being one of the good negroes, and never losing my cool or saying what I actually think, or, God forbid, being me. On the mic, I’m the master of my destiny. And I love it.”— Nelson George, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com
“You know, it’s funny. I thought I’d find you squatting in some downtown smoke-filled atelier, not two blocks away, living the Methodist version of our life.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com